The call to Israel to praise and the reasons

Psalm 149 calls upon Israel to praise. The creation and Israel
we have seen all through to be co-ordinate (the new creation and the
assembly), and to form the sphere of the Psalms. Still it is now in
the congregation of the saints. Israel's relationship is double:
Jehovah has formed him for His praise; He is King in Zion. The
reasons of praise are then given. Jehovah takes pleasure in His
people; but we learn who have this place. He beautifies the meek
with salvation. Then he can say, Let the saints be joyful in glory;
but if the high praises of God are in their mouths, the sword of
earthly judgment and vengeance is in their hands to execute it on
the nations and peoples, to bind the mighty ones who had once
oppressed them. It was the judgment written. Such honour have all
His saints. The persons here in view are thus evident, as is their
position: the meek in Israel now delivered, and the Lord Jesus, King
in Zion, execute judgment on those who had oppressed them. Such is
indeed, as said, the judgment written, and confirms the view I have
taken of the last two books: only now it is complete in its
statements. The millennium itself is not described. The Psalms are
the introduction to it, and by their connection of Christ, as seen
in the Gospels, and the remnant of Israel, with the last days, throw
the greatest light on the Gospels themselves.